This is an odd one

[Hoss]

Hello guys and gals I recently acquired some artifacts and this was among them. It looks like a broken Celt that was being reduced once again into a useful artifact. But what?

[Hoss]

The two spots on the the opposing side from the words London Ont. are glue.It has a lot of pecking on it. I wonder why they gave up? Perhaps it is finished but what could it have been? A hard stone with a tight grain.

[Quartzite Keith]

Yes, it absolutely looks like a hardstone celt or adz preform. I've made 2 celts,and 2 axes using peck and grind, and that piece is certainly being pecked. Looks like he got a few hours in and either lost it or something else came up. Just a slightly educated guess but I think he was a quarter to maybe a third of the way into the project.

[SurfaceHunter]

Chisel or maybe a wedge

[SurfaceHunter]

Shows a lot of pounding on the base end

[gregszybala]

Interesting piece and we can only guess at why or what.

[redrocks]

Maybe an adze im thinking matt

[Kentucky point]

That looks like something I'd do.

Have a great idea for a tool, start it, realize it's harder than it looks, give up.

Yep, somethn' I'd do!

[sailorjoe]

Hi Matt. Without a well defined bit end it's hard to say what it was or what it was intended to be if not finished. It does look like a celt of some sort. I kinda think maybe an adz, but who knows? The lithic is not one that I ever found in my old hunting grounds of N. AL & Mid TN.

[Jethro355]

That looks like one that’s unfinished to me, and a very cool one at that. Like maybe they had been working on it for fortyleven years and then maybe they died or gave up on it.?

[utilized flake]

Maybe used to smash out burned sections of a dugout canoe to get back down to the wood?

[Lindenmeier-Man]

I’m thinking complete, akin to a war club...

[Tam]

Adze / Celt . Sometimes people think they gave up I say maybe that’s as good as that person made them . Just in life there are the best. We will never know . Fun to imagine and very cool grab .